Western Digital MyBook Elite 1TB External Hard Drive Unboxing & First Look
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2010-05-08
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1,441 words · ~7 min read
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so today I'll be having a look at the WD mybook Elite this is an external hard
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drive it is premium backup and storage and it is the number one world's
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bestselling external hard drives that is wd's claim to fame on this particular
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line well no I guess that's overall it has a three-year limited warranty it has
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an LCD screen on the front it is secure
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and I have no idea what that's supposed to mean it's a brain with gears in it
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but I guess we'll get to that when we get to it so it's a 1 terab drive that I
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have today it's up to 120 hours of HD or
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25,000 no 250,000 MP3s or 200,000 jpegs
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okay I'm guessing that's just kind of averaged uh visual backup okay so this
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is their their LCD screen which can show
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it has a power and activity light it has a drive lock indicator so it locks and
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it has a capacity gauge so that's kind of cool you don't have to monitor it you
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can just monitor it at a glance okay so
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visual backup 250 system files music movies photos documents visual backup
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displays your content categories and confirms that your files have been
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backed up okay that's kind of neat Mouse over a category for an
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information window with file details I actually know nothing about this I'm
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just sort of unboxing it on the spot here so their smartware software is a
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visual control center it gives you automatic continuous backup it has
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password protection with 256bit Hardware encryption that's pretty
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cool you have a smart display custom label you can see your label available
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capacity and security status even when the drive is unplugged that's kind of a
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neat feature okay let's go around to the other side and this shows the drive
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itself so why don't we just take it out and show you the drive itself because
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this is meant to be unboxed and that's a
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lot ow oh that hurt okay I'm good I'm
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okay I'm all right
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oh hit my wrist on the table it's like
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going to bruise okay uh now I'm going to try and
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figure out how the Box opens there's a little tab oh there are stickers let cut
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the stickers okay little
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tab okay I got to cut the stickers the other way yes cut the stickers in every
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direction possible there we go okay so there it is there's the my book Elite
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and then over here is our accessories so why don't we start with the accessories
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let's see what we got inside here I'm going to guess there's a power
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cord yes success okay so here is an
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Asian power devices um 100 100 to 240 volt 50 to 60
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her 0.5 amp 12vt power
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adapter cool and this is oh power supply
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it's even conveniently labeled look at that all right next we have um what else
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we have a USB data cable which is also labeled USB 2.0 oh this is this is kind
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of funny I haven't seen too many um 3
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and 1/2 in external hard drives that use the little mini connector most of them
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seem to use the larger one but there you go and then we have a little pamphlet
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brochure thing that says Asian power
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devices ink and gives you some safety instructions for the included uh AC todc
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power adapter clean only with a dry cloth heat all warnings follow all inst
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instuctions do both of those things keep these These are okay this is great check
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this out okay one read these instructions two keep these instructions
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three heed all warnings four follow all instructions and then they give you the
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instructions so there's actually four instructions out of 19 about reading and
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keeping and following and heaing all of the instructions that's excellent um
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next we have an important note to Windows users make sure that you follow
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all these instructions also if it does not launch automatically open my
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computer oh it shows you how to uh how to access the drive my book Elite this
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is a quick start guide so step one two three one you plug in the power two you
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plug in the data and three you um use
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your computer to use the smartware software
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okay and there's nothing on the back oh they hey they have a text support in
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case you have trouble with those three instructions you can call text support in Spanish English Japanese whole
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bunch of other languages have one phone number in Middle East in Africa okay
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technical support and warranty gu wow this is thick technical support and
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warranty guide look at this thing you could like hang this on your
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wall I'm guessing it's because there are
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tin billion different languages and that seems to be the case so here's
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English and then here's some more English and I think that's all the
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English so there must be actually that many languages on
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here cool well it looks like some of the languages get diagrams and other ones
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don't like if anyone here someone should leave a comment and tell me what this
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says cuz that diagram isn't on there in English and I'd like to know what it
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says this one too actually what does that oh oh that's uh Ros so it's lead
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and Mercury cadmium all that kind of good stuff okay so without further Ado
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why don't we have a look at the actual my book Elite
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unit okay so this is the unbagging port
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of my unboxing oh wow these plastic things
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that they use are very strong or I'm very weak one of the
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two all right so it doesn't it weighs about as much as a typical 3 and 1/2 in
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Drive which is about what you'd expect um here's the bottom so it has two
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little rubberized uh foamy grippy feet
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so if you put it down it won't really slide too much that's pretty good okay
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on the side it has like a matte black finish can you see the shininess
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cameraman sort of okay good uh on the back this is where you find most of the
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business end of this particular device it's got a Kensington lock I'm really
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happy to see that then it's got a power button there's your USB interface and
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there's your power in okay this is all seems to be uh ventilation so if you
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actually look at it from this angle can you see that you can kind of see in
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where the drive is can can you tell okay
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yeah you can you can see that and then if you look in at this angle on the top
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you can actually see the the top of the drive so all these vent holes make sure
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that the drive stays nice and cool oh and the bottom is open too so it's going
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to use natural convection to um to let
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the heat rise out the top and then come in from the bottom that's kind of nice
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so at the front there's our LCD screen
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and then there's the power indicator LED
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just a little tiny one you know what I like to see that because you see so many
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external devices with these obnoxiously Bright Power indicators in fact the
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cameraman has a couple just like that he's nodding to me and uh they they can
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like keep you up at night because they're so bright then there's a wd logo
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and that's pretty much all there is to it I mean it's quite simple really the
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one thing that I don't see is um a disc
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for their software I'm guessing it comes pre-loaded and all you have to do is
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plug it in which would stand to reason we could try plugging it in but I think
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that'll take too long why don't we do that in a separate video thank you for checking out my video blog on unboxing
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the WD My Book Elite